The Sun. — London, England, 1826-01-27 00:00:00

LONDON JOURNALS. DA lIX Bxtracts from the Morning Papers, Jan. 27 ) 1820 Enarrtsu At the meeting of the General Court of Pro prietors at the India House on Wednesday, the remarks made by Colonel Leicester Stanhope, on what he was pleased to designate as " the most unnecessary and destructive war" at present car rying on in India, serve to chew with what errow ne4nOmpression his mind hat been inoculated upon this subject. He seems to be influenced— if 'see 'may judge from the warmth of his invective —by a more than common. share of prejudice.— Hi gave it us his opinion that more money had already been spent upon this war than would have sufficed " to build another St. Paul's, or to have extended the quay on the river Thames, and have made it the finest promenade in the world." We should regret certainly if the cost of the Bur mese war should deprive London of the latter of these establishments ; but we do not consider this as very likely, unless, peradventure, there is a nearer alliance between Col. Trench and the Golden Emperor than we are at present aware of ; but even so, it is not quite fair to infer that the expence of any measure is unwisely incurred because' its amount might, if not so applied have accomplished any other purpose which had no relation to it. But the gallant Colonel, not satisfied with this inversion of all the rules of reasoning, proceeded to declare that 44 he thought if Loltl Amherst was allowed to continue at the head of the Government of India, he would ul timafely be the cause of the total loss of that em pire to this country." It world perhaps be diffi cult to name any Governor-General of whom the same thing has not been prophesied fifty times over. As to the accusation of having' rashly in. velvet] the Company in the war at present waging against the lJirman Empire, Lord Amherst, we think, may confidently call for an acquittal on that score. With a View to removing the mis conceptions which we have reason to believe pre vail very generally upon this subject, we purpose, either to-morrow or on Monday, to enter fully into the cause of this war—the manner in which it has been conducted—end the objects ultimately to be secured by it ; and thus to enable the pub lic in this country to form their opinion, on ride quate arid authentic evidence, and not, as at pre sent, from hearsay statements and the misrepre. sentatiens of party. [TII E TI M ES.] In our Paper of yesterday, we reported the nature and result of un interview between the Board,of Trude and •tt Deputation from the silk matinfacturers. Mr. lluskisson, it appears, could not promise any iuterference on the part of Go vernment, nor any chan ge o f th e ex i s ti ng l aw , us mentis of mitigating the actual distress - of the silk trade--eretaining conscientiously, us the Right Gentleman declared, his opinions of Inst year upou the subject in conformity with which opinions he had carried through Parliament the repeal of the former laws, prohibiting the im portation of manufactured silks from neighbour. leg countries into England. We beg to have it understnod, that in any observations which may fall: from us with regard to this highly interest iu question, we cannot shut our eyes or hearts to the circumstances under which it comes before us. It ; is impossible to look at the thousands of poor.industrious weavers, with their helpless fa milies, who at this inclement season are dis• missed front work, and thrown noon whatever charity may be inspired by Providence into the breasts of their fellowecreatures, without being strongly•tempted.to give way to the ready and unrellectiog impulse of humanity, and to concur itt any, expedient for relieving the misery of the present hour, heedless of what the next may pro duce. J/ut .it is necessary to consider well the treattnent sit' diseases to which society is at all times liable. By restoring the old nominal prohi bition against foreign silks, is it certain that we should • improve, or that we should deterioarate, the general and permanent condition of the En. ghsh ,workman? Is a monopoly more secure against all vicissitudes of the market ? Have we netser_ heard of distresses in the trade while the former.laws• were in force ? The enormous quan tities.of smuggled silkshave proved, we appre hand, the .utter inefficaey of prohibition. Th e success ,of , smuggling, and the impossibility of preventing:. it, have been admitted by the silk uannfeclurers .themselves, end more than admit fed strange to say, they have been dwelt upon by the- writers and speakers of that body, for the curious purpose of effecting the repeal of a duty which was calculated to undermine the smuggler, and of restoring.a prohibition, in spite of which, and because of which, he had prospered in his contraband against the English trader. lint what was Mr. fluskisson's reply to the appeal of the Delegates on Wednesday last ? He acknowledged that some of the distress had arisen from the fear elan inundation of silks from Lyons, on the expiry of the old law, hut that a.great deal more had been occashined by the indiscreet speculations of the bilk-dealers. Of this latter opinion we are bound to say, that. .the hest intelligence which has reached us goes fully .toestabiish the justice. O n the promulgation of the new system, to the sup port of which, let it be remembered, the Mini sters were eagerly encouraged by the official evi dence of the principal manufacturers themselves, a general confidence in the success of it seemed to preveil amongst tine silk-trade. The protect. ing duty of :ft) per cent. upon French goods, was not the only nor most remarkable feature in the Hew regulations of Mr. Huskisson. The mon strous.doty upon the raw material was a !molt annihilated. It was reduced from fis. nd. in the pound to which is the same amount to which the French importer is :;object. It does not ap peer, therefore, that the manufacturers- and silk-merchants were -unreasonable iii expecti ng a glorious harvest of prosperity to • follow from RUA a reduction of duty on raw silk an d s o c h .0 protection of the manufacture co m bined. They one end all acc o rdi ng ly rushed Into the market—every pound of silk th a t could , be. h ear d of, throughout hurope arid Asia, was bought up ; the ovidtty of purchase operated as a tremendous tax—tislirice of silk was raised little short of 100 per cent.,,ipstead of being suf fered to experience the benefit designed" for it by the Legislature : the mattirlil thus forced up t o an artificial and prepotterous value was expected to be sold in its Manufactured form at a prat— e thing altogether impracticabl e : a necessary fall of price succeeded to the unnatural eleva tion—the goods have lain on hand—the journey men are dismissed—the trade is distressed—the cries of hunger are mingled with the clamour of disappointed cupidity—the relaxed system of commerce is blamed for consequences resulting in a great measure from the unwise abuse of it, and Government is called upon to indemnify the authors of their own calamity, by the sacrifice of a principle which, if sufficient ly extended, and skilfully applied, would have accomplished, all the good that the manufactures themselves at first anticipated from its operation. But, on the other hand, we are ready to acknow ledge, that if Ministers stop short at the point to which they conducted the interests of the silk trade in the former year, they will leave it in a most insecure condition. Although the imposts on the raw material, so far as silk alone is con cerned, has been so liberally reduced, there are other articles essential to the trade, in the use of which it is phsically impossible for the English manufacturer to maintain a competition with his rivals. There are twenty other taxes affecting the manufacture which Must be reduced, or even the high ditty of 30 per cent. will not, in the end, afford a protection against the foreigner.— Ali unit:lts employed in dyeing are subject, in this country, to severe taxation. ft is in the beauty of their colours that the French have hitherto enjoyed their most brilliant triumph over us. Yet, no if to perpetuate this superiority, and to defeat the very object of a reduced tax on silk, the dyes, which are its passports to consumption, have remained as inaccessible as ever to the English man just entering upon this course of adventure. Mr. Ifuskisson therefore will, we trust, exert himself to remove this further obstacle in the way of his own success. The last article which we shall touch upon, as of some value to the British workman, is a loaf on reasonable terms. If the monopoly in corn be maintained, while that species of preference be taken away from every other class of our domestic industry—if the corn law be still suffered to exist, as a bounty to the foreign manufacturer for overflowing this kingdom with his rival wares—how is it possible for the Bnglish manufacturer to stand at once against an admission of foreign wares, and an exclusion of foreign corn ? The truth is, that a free trade in corn ought . to have been the basis of all other commercial freedom, as being that without which every other must have a vain and puerile chimera ,[NEW TIMES.] In the discharge of our public duty, we have lately been under the painful necessity of record ing the proceedings of various public meetings, held in consequence of the distress which prevails in the Silk Trade. A meeting of this kind assem bled on Tuesday last at Congleton, in Cheshire, where, out of a population of 10,000 inhabitants, no less than 4,500 derive their subsistence from the silk business, a very large proportion of whom, we regret to learn, are out of employ.— Our Macclesfield Correspondent, too, mites us, that in that town there are between 9 and 10,000 persons wholly unemployed, and it is feared that the number will increase. Th e Poor rates there have become unusually heavy, and the sums paid in wages are diminish e d by near 11,0001. per week. It will also be seen, that a meeting was held last night at Beth nal-green, when a resolution was passed to apply to the. Lord Mayor for his assistance in setting on foot a subscription for the relief of the Silk Weavers, on the ground that the parish funds are quite inadequate to that purpose. Statements of this kind will always command the most anx. ious attention of his Majesty's Government. The King's Ministers have directed their zealous efforts towards the improvement of the national resources, by adopting the most enlightened views in political philosophy. Improvement, however, implies change, and great changes can not be effected in the distributions of property, or the modes of employment, without producing a temporary pressure on sonic part of the commu nity. Of this there are no persons more fully aware than the Statesmen now at the bend of utfairs, nor can any persons be more anxious than they are to benefit the public at the smallest pos sible expence of private comfort and conve nience. They will, therefore, never be found to turn a deaf ear to complaints such as those above mentioned ; but in estimating the real importance of the facts stated, regard must be had to. their causes. Is the stagnation of the Silk Trade wholly owing to the prospect of foreign compet►- tion with our manufacturers; or is it not, in great part, attributable to the conduct of some of the complainants themselves ? The taking oil the ( l i nk s on raw silk opened a new scene of profit, in which many became eager to share; that hap pened, which has been eloquently described by a foreign writer, as of frequent occurrence in the history of commerce—" Whenever fortune opens the gates of I►er temple, says he, the crowd rush in with an eagerness that approaches to frenzy. They press Against, they overturn eac h other, without a possibility of preventing those fatal accidents. Thus it is, that cupidity becomes inflamed, speculations are multiplied without bounds, markets ,Are glutted, the re action is felt in the manufactories, the demand ceases, orders are revoked, the forge is silent, the loom is still, and the workman is reduced to idleness and want." But although this picture may in part lie applicable to the Silk Trade, still Ministers are not to disregard, and eel-. wilily will not underrate, the actual sufferings of the poor. The only question will be, whe ther such sufferings are not attributable to temporary causes, and may not be re►nedied without an abandonment of those arrangements, which have bee►► the fruit of deep meditation, and enlightened judgment. [MORNING ellitON I CLV.I Though we extremely lament the enuse which has prevented the Lord Chancellor from sitting, we cannot regard the strspension of his Lordship's judicial labours, as any interruption of the busi ness of his Court. On the contrary, we think that the condition of suitors iu the Chancellor's Court has not, during the whole period of his Learned Presidency, ever been so endurable as at this moment. As much is done now as has been done for years back, and that without the expence of a single sixpence. The doors of Lincoln's-inn Hall being shut, there are no attendances from day to day, for postponed judgments, no useless motions, no unheard hearings of causes, or carting of reams of papers fur Hamilton-place. Every thing stands still just as if his Lordship were sitting, with , this difference only, that things stand still with out expence, which is the only thing that makes any progress during the Chancellor's sittings.— ' Some years ago when an ill-managed theatre, which had been playing at a nightly loss, was shut up, the committee, unphilosoohically mis taking the privation of an evil for a positive good, were in raptures when they missed the nightly ruin, and fancied that it was prosperity. " Ah," they . reasoned, " if we could always go on thus, we should be enviable indeed ; then we should flourish. For the prosperity of a theatrical con cern, there is clearly nothing like shutting up the house !" The feeling of Chancery suitors is at the present moment, probably, similar to that of the sag e s w e have alluded to on a like occasion. [MO It NI NG POST.] - - While the cause of Greece revives and flourishes a degree which her Christian enemies little an icipated, the, policy of the new Russian Emperor assumes a decided character, which cannot fail to act as a powerful diversion, even if it should lead to no military interference, in behalf of the struggling Patriots. Besides the Note published by the Austrian Government, in which Nicholas declares his intention to maintain the political system of his late brother, another Note, it is now admitted, was also forwarded by Count Nesse!rode to the same Court, stating " that the Russian Cabinet had decided that energetic rime se:Rations should be again made at Constantinople in order to induce the Porte at length to execute without restriction the stipulations of the treaty of 1812, concluded at Bucharest, and especially those parts which concerned the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. The Russian Cabinet having resolved that the negociations which had been so long carrying on with the Divan should be promptly terminated, desired that the Ambas sadors of the great Powers at Constantinople should join M. Minziacky, the Russian Charge (PA ffaires,in the communications which he would have to make to the Reis Effendi, conformably to the new instructions which would immediately he transmitted to loin.'' This language is no longer that of one who is led, but of one who is determined to lead. There is in it no symp tom of indecision, no weak submission to the su premacy of Austrian policy. Nicholas declares that he is going to act with energy ; that the treaties which the Porte has violated for years must be observed; that her repeated promises must 00 longer be evaded end unperformed, and that in the great work of compelling her to ex ecute faithfully her engagements, he demands, not the permission nor the advice, but the aid o f all the E uropean P owers. If this be adhering to Alexander's system : it is to that which he was about to adopt and not that which he had hitherto pursued. However this may be it is one which must lead to decisive events. Nicholas himself seems to be of that opinion, for it is stated that he was preparing to repair to the Southern pro vinces. Like the Russian General Officer, whose letter we noticed yestesday, he probably feels that in order to secure the fidelity of Ids armies, they must be actively employed, and that noth ing can more completely gain their favour and their love, than being at hand to head them against the plunderers and destroyers of their co. religionists. [TUE PUUSJC LEDGER. Last night we received Dutch apers'to the 21st hist. The insurrection in Java appears to have produced some shame, as well as alarm, in Holland, and, to evade - the imputation of mis. government, an attempt is made to fasten it on the native Priests, who, it is said, have announced that the second reign of Mahomet is at hand, and that Christianity is of course on the point of being extirpated. That this prophecy May have been a fruit of the general excitement, it shocks no sound notions to believe; hut that it was the seed, is contrary to all experience. The instances are very rare indeed of prophecies having pro. yoked great convulsions ; but there are flume rous examples of Prophets starting up in times of trouble. It is stat e d, t h at t h e Porte has given notice to the Agents of Fo reign Powers, that oil foreign ships, on en tering the Dardanelles, to whatever nation they may belong, must stop, and ask permission to pass the Straits. Such vessels as shall act in contravention of this order, will be fired at ; and it is extravagantly supposed that t h is measure is preparatory to an order for closing the Straits.-- It is much more probable that it is the result of the report that Lord Cochrane means to join the Greeks ; and as the Porte is not ignorant of the enterprising character of this distill. guished Officer, the present precaution may be the result of that knowledge. These Papers co n t a i n no news from Russia, but such ' as is already known to our Readers ; but we have, through another channel, direct advices from St. Petersburg!) to the' Bth instant, from which we learn, that the public tranquillity had remained undisturbed since the revolt of part of the :garri son. W e have also received the St. Petersburgh Gazette to the same date, which of course puts as good a face as possible en the state of affairs. It says, that the whole of the first colps &armee has taken the , oath to th e E m p eror Ni co l as ; that the corps in Finland hai done the same ; and that the ' people every whereos well as thearaiy, are rather eager, than remiss, , o 'recognizing - his authority. If the reverse Of this were the truth, we should have still the same assurance; and this is the that the statements,-:which - emanate from arbitrary , Governments,•,obtain so little credit.— Not a word is. said of COUlitltilitat' in-the official Paper, though his image must, one would suppose, have incessantly hau:ited the minds of its patrons. If he has given, however, no cause of suspision to the new Emperor, both one and the other would be perfect patterns of magnanhnity ; but, with all our habitual veneration for high per sonages, we are not wholly satisfied with this ex planation of the apparent harmony of the two Imperial brothers. If the renunciation of the Russian throne be a bona fide act on the part of the elder brother, an indemnity has probably been held out to him in another quarter. From the birth he has been destined to wear the Greek Crown; and as this destination must have taken deep root in his own feelings, as well as in the prejudices of the Russian nation, we have here a key at once to many recent circumstances, that would otherwise remain perfectly unintelligible. A few months more, however, will chew the value of this hypothesis. [MORNING HERALDI The accounts received in town yesterday morn ng of the stoppage of the Liverpool Bank, and other extensive con►rnercial failures in that place, diffused a gloom over the Money Market, which considerably paralyzed the time operations on the Stock Exchange. The commercial adven turing mania appears to have been as general and sweeping at Liverpool, as the Joint Scheme mania was in London, scarcely a single commo dity having escaped ; and it also appears to be equally, if not more destructive and over whelming in its consequencei. The present crash, in addition to the Banking-house, comprehends some of the leading houses in the hide and skin trade, who are now overtaken with large stocks, on hand imported, and bought at prices which cannot be realized. It is also one of the benefi cial results of our trade with South America, the giving cotton goods near 50 per cent. below prime cost for hides nearly as much' above their average value. Two considerable houses in their line in the City also stopped payment yesterday. One of them (Abraham Dixon and Co.) in the woollen trade, is closely connected with a large manufac turing concern in the neighbourhood of Leeds ; but it is believed that their capital is sufficiently large to enable them to sustain the shock. The other is the firm of Campbell, Bowden, and Co., general merchants, but they are not believed to he so exteusively involved. In consequence of these various announcements, Consols opened heavily yesterday morning at 8041, and fell pro• gressively, until they closed at 801. The time transactions were more limited than they were on IVednesday, the ardour of the Bulls having con. siderably abated. Three per Cents. Reduced were sold at from 811 to ;3j per Cents. 891 to i ; and 4 per Cents. 971 . to 98; large Exche quer Bills, 1 dis. to par; small, 2 to 4; and India Bonds, 9to 10 prem. There was nothing occurred worth notice in the Foreign Market, except a fall of about 1 per cent. in the leading Transatlantic Securities. We heard from good authority on 'Change that the Bank was very cautious, and also limited, in their mercantile discounts yesterday. COMM ERCIA L EM BA R RASSMENTS. (Prom the Manche:ter Mercury.) We do not remember a period at which there has been so deep and general feeling a of depres sion amongst commercial men as is now prevalent. It is not in one trade only but in all that a great extent of suffering exists. In the woollen branches we hear the most appalling accounts of the dismissal of work people, the stoppage of masters, and the general destruction of confidence. In the silk trade there is a most serious degree of stagnation and distress (this we have not denied, however inadequate to its production we might think the causes assigned for it) ; and in the cotton trade the state of things is daily be. coming more serious ; we mjty say, fast approxi mating to that of the worst of any of the other staple manufactures of the country. A very large number of hand-weavers, we hear, are dis missed from week to week ; the stocks of power loom cloth and cotton goods generally are accu mulating rapidly ; yarns are very heavy ; and though the prices, both of these and of goods, are decidedly lower than .any former period, the re duction hi value has not yet created any acces sion of demand. The fact is, there are few foreign markets which at present afford much temptation to shippers, whilst the home trade Is for a time in a considerable degree extinguished. Transactions in those parts of the country where there have been many bank failuresare necessarily susPended ; the old circulating medium—that of local paper, has been taken in a degree away, and nothing has been yet obtained to supply its place. To what extent the disastrous consequences of this state of things may go it is impossible to form nu opinion ;• the convulsion has been far more extensive and more ruinous than we had appre hended ; it has lasted for a longer time, and as yet we see no symptoms of amendment. What then is best to do? If, as we are inclined to think, over-production is one great cause of the present state of the cotton trade, the remedy ob viously is to manufacture less, until the glut has been removed, and this course is now being very much adopted. In addition to many of the chief spinners in this town and its immediate vicinity, who are already working short time, a similar step has been taken, or resolved on, by the spin ners at Burnley, Blackburn, Stockport, and Bolton, and we believe it-is in contemplation at Hyde, and in other places. • In Liverpool, we understand, the depression . and alarm is even much greater than it is in this, town. The prices of cotton are rapidly falling ; no one knows where they will stop, and the reduced rate at which consumption. will go on must tend to de press th em st ill more. This eff e ct, h owever much it may b e t o b e deprecated, appears i nev i table; and th e consequence , we fear, will be th e occur rence, in that port, of further insolventies. present loss on the import of upland cottons is little less than 50 per cent. ROTTERDAM, baf.'lo.---" We have had a than , since Wednesday eveni►ig, but not seas to cause any alteration in the state of the river." S S I A. FROZEN MARKET AT ST. PETERSBURGH. To strangers, unaccustomed to the various changes produced in men and things by the in fluence of intense frost, nothing appears more wonderful or note-worthy than that part of the city dedicated to the sale of frozen provisions.— Your astonished sight is there arrested by a vast open square, containing the bodies of many thousand animals, piled in pyramidical heaps on all sides—enws, sheep, hogs, fowls, butter y eggs, fish, all stiffened into granite. The fish are attractively beautiful, possessing the vividness of their living colour, with the transparent clear ness of wax imitations. The beasts present a far less pleasing spectacle —most of the larger sort being skinned, and classed according to their species; groupes of many hundreds are seen piled npon their hind legs against one another, as if each were making an effort to climb over the back of its neighbour. The motionless, yet apparent animation of their seemingly struggling attitudes (as if suddenly seized it, moving, and petrified by frost), give a horrid life to this dead scene. had an enchanter's wand been in stantaneously waved over this sea of animals, during their different actions, they could tint have been fixed more decidedly. Their hard ness, too, is so extreme, that the natives chop them up for the purchasers like wood, and the chips lof their carcases fly off in the same way as splinters do from masses of timber and coal.— The provisions collected here are the product of countries many thousand wersts distant. Si beria, Archangel, and still remoter provinces, furnish the merchandise, which, during the frost's severity, is conveyed hither on sledges. In consequence of the multitudes of these com modities, and the short period allowed to the ex istence of the market, they are cheaper than at any other period of the year, and are, therefore, bought in large quantities, to be laid up as a winter stock. When deposited in cellars, they keep for a length of time. At certain hours every day the market, while it lasts, is a fashionable lounge. There you meet all the beauty an d gaiety of St. P e t er b urg h, even f rom t h e Imperial family down to the Russian merchant's wife. — Incredible crowds of sledges, carriages, and. pe" destrians, throng the place; the different groupes of spectators, purchasers, venders, and commo dities, form such an extraordinary spectacle as no other city is known to equal. During this mart of congealed merchandise, affecting scenes often occur. Th e prov i s i ons are exper sed from th e mos t remote provinces of this vas t empire, c onsequent l y the infinitude of sledge s necessary for th e i r conveyance are accom panied by b oors , I t not often the cas e, that for more t h en one season the same perso n travels w i t h t h em : and this change of , con ductors i s p ro d uce d by motives more honour . able and more powerful than interest itself.- - henever a n ew l evy i s made for the army; a given number (acc or di ng to t h e state's necess i t y), is taken from e very five hund re d vassa l s ca pable of bearing arms . M os t o f t h e v i llages have t h u s been dep r i ve d o f some o f t h e i r inhabitants, and it is with th e affectionate hope of aga i n seeing their different relations, that many very aged men accompany these frozen caravans. St. Petersburgh is the extent of their views. The knowledge of that city and of their own villa - ges, bounds their geographic acquirements; it is hi' !her all their wishes tend, for to that spot alone they believe 19 fixed the object of their fond soh ignorant of any particular corps, and only conscious that it is a y ses k,ender the liveliest expressions of expectation and affec tion, they momentar il y look for the blessing ele embracing cc son, a brother, or some other nea r and beloved kinsm4n. Act►rated by a s imilar feeling, hundreds of soldiers are seen going from group to group, searching for their own parents among these patriarchal strangers. To the ob servation of a benevolent individual these scenes are delightful. Nothing can be than to witness their j o yf u l meetings ; father s theire zu n t brc e tc x i p ng ressiots i s o ns, brotherso,tisyi leir disappointmentmore affecting excite more di s t ress i ng sympathies, and the heart saddens whil e li stening to the impatient t f b re r g ot u l e ce n r i V quirtes of m an y, w h o are soon deprived of th eir dearest hop es b y the inf ormat i on that anot her country cont a i ns t h e i r offspring, world. per h a ps another MARRIED. On Thursday last, at Great Amwell Henry Hawke Pordi. Esq., eldest son of Richard Peard, of 'Coole-house, county ° Cork, Es q ., to Eli za b eth, third daughter of George Cetlizovis Esq., of liodd es d on, H ertfordshire. At Shorne, 1 1r. W. S. Y oung, o f Parliament-street, west: minster, solicitor, to Frances illaplesiten, third daughter of Jarvis Noakes, Esq., of Shorne-field, Kent. DIED. On Friday, the 20th inst., after a very short illness, Eliza beth, wife of Timothy Sink , Esq., of lchnoild-hous:, n ear Birmingham. On the 25th in s t., at hi s house, Dorset-place, suddenly', Thomas Ferniough Bristow, Esq., age d O. On Wednes,tay, th e 25 t h ut his hous e a t Lambeth , William Howard, E sq ., i n t h e 64th year of his age. On the 24th inst., John Norbury, of th e Spaniarchir Hampstead-h ea th. On Tuesday ev en i ng , very suddenly, aged 62, Mr. Do ie l Walker of Scarborough, hair-dresser. He was taken l" a carpe in littl e about eight o'clock, and was more than arl' hour. ClaPham.road. At the Vicarage in Westgate-street, Newcastle-upon-T.,yne, , M on the 22d i nst ., a f ter a long and tedious 'Mesh the Rev. John Smith, A 1.,. Vicar, and Master of the Ilospital of St- Mary Magdalene, in that town, in the 61st year of his age. During a constant resid ence for nearly 22 years upon his Cure,- he made many friends by his amiable and kind dispositiou—• Genuine hospitality reigned in his house, and - his purse_strings were always readily drawn to relieve the wants of the poor and distressed ; beuevulence being the foundation of his good deeds, he anxiously avoided all semblance of ostentation, perfectly sensible of the blessin gs en j o y e d - by a ll c l asses of Englishmen, he was an ardent admirer, ns well as a zealous supporter of the British Constitution in Church and State, being in fact at all times much more anxious to advance the public welfare and prosperity, than to proninte those interests which might be supposed to centre in himself. In a word, he was a bright example of true Christian charity,—for he not only " did not seek his own," but in many instances returned what he re ceived, anti gave away privately to the full e xt e nt of his means, while to all the charitable Institutions of the town, he was a liberal benefactor, and personally exerted himself to promote many of them by the most vigilant and Praise Worthy atte' thin. It is scarcely necessary to add, that so much worth and virtue will long be held in affectionate remembrance by the inhabitants of Newcastle. Printed and Publiabed for the I . ItOPTIFETOtt , I, t►t the Sutda Orrtct, No. 112, Strand, by S. 8. t'aniTants.